Nightmare Alley follows con-man Stanton Carlisle as he rises from sideshow hustler to high-society psychic, weaving a fatal web of greed and lies.

The Machine pulls Truman and Landen back into the dream realm with five films for In Dreams.

The Machine’s latest Mini-Transmission dives into the surreal dream logic of In Dreams (1999).

A psychological thriller that opens in a fairy tale and ends in a flood of glass, apples, and psychic bleed-through.

What happens when the Machine pulls five films bound by voodoo, hypnosis, and the horror of losing yourself?

Landen and Truman start with a simple question: what kind of man truly earns his Panama hat?

The Skeleton Key (2005) promises Southern Gothic chills but locks its story inside a swamp of twists and hoodoo lore.

Five films thematically related to Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant.

Truman and Landen unpack Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant with confusion, frustration, and a deep dive into a freak show that left them feeling personally attacked.

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant (2009) tried to launch the next big YA franchise — and fell flat on its face.

This week, the Machine delivers five thematically entangled transmissions for Hotel Artemis.

This week’s transmission includes advice for aspiring criminals, a countdown in French, and the questionable ergonomics of sci-fi jade eggs.

In Hotel Artemis (2018), Jodie Foster runs a secret hospital for criminals in riot-torn Los Angeles — but despite ten unbreakable rules, nobody seems to follow any of them, including the movie itself.

The Machine wrests control of the list and serves up five films that echo, challenge, or outshine Body of Lies (2008).

Leonardo DiCaprio side-sips a beer. Landen sprays beer out his nose. Somehow, that’s still more memorable than anything in Body of Lies.

What happens when you take a CIA thriller, strip it of personality, and add brown contact lenses? Body of Lies (2008) is the rare war-on-terror drama that forgets itself while you’re still watching it.

What do Brazilian fight scenes, video game sound cues, and a referee with a whistle have in common? This Mini-Transmission dives into the sonic mayhem of The Rundown (2003), plays the easiest Trailer Game of all time, and ends with a cryptic new clue from the Machine.   WHAT YOU’LL HEAR A spirited debate over whether a jungle fight scene is secretly reffed by a whistle-happy sports official A haunting PlayStation startup sound hidden in the score The easiest (and most accurate) round of The Trailer Game yet A nostalgic fall down the hill — and into Hot Rod comparisons A cryptic Next Movie Reveal: “Trust no one. Deceive everyone.”   Want more weird cinema and Machine-fueled chaos? Follow us here: – Support the show on Patreon: https://patreon.com/gruntworkpod – Season watchlist on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/moviememorypod/ – Visit our website: https://www.moviememorymachine.com

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s first big shot at movie stardom came in The Rundown (2003)

Whether you loved or hated Wicker Park, here are five similar films that you can watch.